It looks like somebody finally decided to take our money. For a while there I was really starting to feel like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman as she’s sitting in the hotel managers office pulling out wads of crinkled bills,…
I’ve led a very spoiled existence
Up until a few weeks ago, I have never in my married life gone grocery shopping by myself. Whenever I say that to someone their eyes immediately try to escape their face. Believe me, I am well aware of how…
Housing Crisis
With Bear out of town I’ve been trying to take advantage of the time as best I can by doing all the things I love to do that he doesn’t. I love to go thrift store shopping, but Bear hates…
It’s hard to be depressed when you live here
Ten miles away from my current apartment, and five miles away from the houses we’re looking at, this is what I get to see. I took that last weekend. We had gone to the temple and seen my old friend…
Happy Crafters
One of the hardest parts of this miscarriage is the fact that it happened right after we moved. If this had happened when we were in Modesto, it would have been just as big a disappointment, but I would have…
Kids = free entertainment
We were visiting my sister-in-law the other day and playing with our 3 yr old nephew Moose.* He had a friend over for a playdate that ended just as we showed up, so we were able to catch him saying…
Ta Da!
Introducing… Polly the PT Cruiser! She’s my new baby and I love her. See how proud I am? She’s actually quite roomy inside. I’m just so overjoyed it brings a tear to my eye.
So tired…zzzzzzzzzzzz
Have you ever had a bad bought of the flu? One where you were so run down that you couldn’t get out of bed? Where lifting your arms to knit or crosstitch was just more effort than you could expend?…
I’m too dang old for this
At church I work with the teenage girls, which means I also spend a lot of time with the teenage boys, because where one goes, the other follows. This Sunday we’re giving a big lecture about the dangers of the…
What’s been keeping me so busy?
Well, a few things really. #1 This! #2 THIS! #3 THIS!!! and a totally unfruitful and unproductive job search, but I’ll save that to complain about another day. So, what you see there in picture number 1 is the new…